Laurence Sterne Quote

I think that science may be styled the knowledge of universals, or abstract wisdom; and art is science reduced to practice - or science is reason, and art the mechanism of it - and may be called practical science. Science, in fine, is the theorem, and art the problem.


The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author (Volume 6), The Koran (p. 348)


I think that science may be styled the knowledge of universals, or abstract wisdom; and art is science reduced to practice - or science is reason,...

I think that science may be styled the knowledge of universals, or abstract wisdom; and art is science reduced to practice - or science is reason,...

I think that science may be styled the knowledge of universals, or abstract wisdom; and art is science reduced to practice - or science is reason,...

I think that science may be styled the knowledge of universals, or abstract wisdom; and art is science reduced to practice - or science is reason,...